Silenus
Family: Bacchus · Role: follower · First appears: Fable 38
Life events
- Phrygian rustics bring intoxicated Silenus to King Midas.(Fable94)
- With: Midas
- “The Phrygian rustics took him, as he was staggering with age and wine, and, bound with garlands, they led him to {their} king, Midas”
- Midas restores Silenus to Bacchus, who offers Midas a favor.(Fable94 · 📍 Lydian lands)
Fable 38
- with Bacchus (Silenus is described as a follower of Bacchus.) “The Bacchanals and the Satyrs follow {thee}; the drunken old man, too, {Silenus}, who supports his reeling limbs with a staff, and sticks by no means very fast to his bending ass.”
- with Bacchus (interaction) “The Bacchanals and the Satyrs follow {thee}; the drunken old man, too, {Silenus}”
Fable 94
- pupil: Bacchus (Silenus is identified as Bacchus's tutor.) “Bacchus, having punished the Thracian women for the murder of Orpheus, leaves Thrace. His tutor, Silenus, having become intoxicated, loses his companions, and is brought by some Phrygian peasants to Midas.”
- ward: Bacchus (Silenus is identified as Bacchus's foster-father.) “To him the God, being glad at the recovery of his foster-father, gave the choice of desiring a favour, pleasing, {indeed}, but useless, {as it turned out}.”
- with Midas (Midas hospitably hosts Silenus.) “Soon as he recognized this associate and companion of these rites, he hospitably kept a festival on the coming of this guest, for twice five days, and {as many} nights joined in succession.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.